Here’s your daily brief for the handball action at the 2024 Summer Olympics and it’s semi-finals day for the women in Lille!
The schedule
16:30 – Sweden vs France
21:30 – Norway vs Denmark
What’s at stake?
Just 60 minutes, or 70, or 80 plus penalties, separate these four teams and the match they’ve all been dreaming about for the past three years, the Olympic final.
After the drama, elation and heartbreak we experienced on Wednesday, expect more of the same today.
I haven’t got all day
You don’t need all day to catch the matches anymore. But if you only have time for one today, then I’ll quietly nudge you towards the later throw-off.
Around the rings
If you’ve got 20 seconds to spare between the semi-finals, watch the men’s 200 metre final at 20:30 CEST, it’s arguably more intense and dramatic than the 100 and it features American Noah Lyles, who has the chance to become the first man since Usain Bolt to complete an Olympic sprint double after winning the 100 on Sunday.